Grant Et Al Flashcards
What area psychology is this under?
Cognitive
What is context dependent memory?
The belief that memory is most effective when it is encoded and retrieved under the same conditions
What were they researching?
If context dependent memory can affect results in school tests
What was the research method design?
Individual Measures
What was the research environment design?
Laboratory conditions
What was the IV?
How a participants results were affected based off the condition/ change in condition
What where the 4 conditions?
Matched: Silent-Silent Noise-Noise Mismatched: Silent-Noise Noise-Silent
What was the DV?
The results of the test.
What was the sample?
40 paricipants
32 Assigned by experimenter
8 randomly assigned
1 rejected
How were the participants prepared?
They all used headphones and a cassette player, which was either quiet or played noise from a cafeteria
What were the 2 types of test?
A short answer test was given, followed by multiple choice answer
What did the results find?
It found that congruent conditions provided better results, and incongruent provided worse.
